Sinclair Lewis Quotes
"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Occupation, Winter)
"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Nothing)
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: America, Will)
"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Hope, Audiences)
"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Age, May, Old)
"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Love, Evening)
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Humor, Being, Insults, Sense, Trouble, Will)
"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Courage)
"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'"
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: People, Customer, Will)
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: America, Country)
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Writers)
"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Men, Merriment, Smiles)
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: Selling, Advertising)
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: American, Literature)